Broken Roads

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  • Summary: Born of a love for traditional computer role-playing, Broken Roads provides a rich, engaging narrative in which players make their way across a desolated future Australia.

    Blending together traditional and all-new role-playing elements on top of a classless system offering nearly    Born of a love for traditional computer role-playing, Broken Roads provides a rich, engaging narrative in which players make their way across a desolated future Australia.

    Blending together traditional and all-new role-playing elements on top of a classless system offering nearly unlimited character development options, Broken Roads presents players with an original morality system: the Moral Compass. This novel design sees dialogue options and questing decisions influence, and be influenced by, a character's philosophical leaning.    … Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 37
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 37
  3. Negative: 7 out of 37
  1. Digitally Downloaded
    Apr 22, 2024
    90
    There aren’t too many truly authentic games set in Australia, made by Australians, telling Australian stories. Broken Roads is one, and it is one of the most different and interesting games you’ll play this year on that basis alone. Yes there are more refined RPGs out there, but none of those will take you on a crash course through Australian mannerisms while delivering a compelling narrative of human resilience, community, weakness and savagery.
  2. GamingBolt
    Apr 15, 2024
    80
    Despite its rather simple combat system, Broken Roads is a fantastic new entry in the RPG genre.
  3. RPG Fan
    Apr 10, 2024
    76
    Overall, the ways Broken Roads challenged me were fascinating and frustrating, sometimes simultaneously. It definitely won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, though I suspect some will adore it. If you’re the reflective type, it’s sure to get the gears turning. If nothing else, it’s much cheaper than taking Philosophy 101 at a university.
  4. Player 2
    Apr 22, 2024
    67
    While it does have some stumbles it is an RPG that does away with the traditional good/bad decisions and has room for those moments where even the stalwart paragon of justice has to get down in the mud to get his way.
  5. GameStar
    Apr 15, 2024
    60
    An unusual idea with an intriguing setting, but immature mechanics.
  6. GRYOnline.pl
    Apr 10, 2024
    55
    Broken Roads is what comes out of giving too much attention to cool ideas (moral compass, great dialogue and descriptions) and forgetting to make a game out of them. This is an RPG with glimmers of genius that are overshadowed by tons of unfinished elements.
  7. RPG Site
    Apr 29, 2024
    30
    I was excited to see my country represented properly in a video game, and that did happen. Sadly the game itself isn’t worth a damn, it’s a classic style RPG but none of my choices matter and I can hardly make any of them. Many systems and choices are just odd and make it unfun to play. They have a roadmap to change some issues I had, and some minor odd design decisions have already been fixed, but we’ll have to wait and see if that really fixes the poor story. The only real redeeming quality this game has is the art.

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